Friday, January 30, 2009

"The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. When you hear people in church debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible and not worthy of self- respecting human beings. (...) A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men." The quote by Bertrand Russell

27 essays and articles on different subjects such as "Why I am not a Christian" and "Is there a God?" by Bertrand Russell.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

A Perfect Circle has got something to say to your God... (This is not the official video, it is a clip with atheistic cartoons.)

Some lyrics of the song:Oh, so many many ways for me to show youHow your dogma has abandoned youPray to your Christ, to your GodNever taste of the fruitNever stray, never breakNever -- choke on a lieEven though he's the one who did this to youYou never thought to question why

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Religion is in the center of world politics today. The Bible has been used as an imperialistic power to justify their politics for centuries. However most of the people believe that the Bible is really the words of God. Theologian Dr. Robert Beckford seeks the answers and makes voyage to Jerusalem, Turkey, Rome and the US to find out the origins of the Testaments.

Another brilliant Skeptic Society lecture by Jared Diamond, author of the best selling books The Third Chimpanzee and Guns, Germs, and Steel. Diamond explains his controversial theories about our evolution and "Great Leap" related to language phase.

Professor Noam Chomsky in Class War reveals what does the government understand of democracy, telling us how big corporations have great power on political system. A frightening and eye-opening lecture by an intellectual.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Christopher Hitchens, contributing editor of Vanity Fair, writes in his column about the violance against Salman Rushdie and Muslim fundamentalists' pressure of censorship.

"In the hot days immediately after the fatwa, with Salman himself on the run and the TV screens filled with images of burning books and writhing mustaches, I was stopped by a female Muslim interviewer and her camera crew and asked an ancient question: 'Is nothing sacred?' I can’t remember quite what I answered then, but I know what I would say now. 'No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn’t be able to decide which book or which idol or which city was the truly holy one. Thus, the only thing that should be upheld at all costs and without qualification is the right of free expression, because if that goes, then so do all other claims of right as well.' "[Read more...]

Friday, January 2, 2009

"My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to wish that they were true. Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity." Bertrand Russell

Philosopher Bertrand Russell speaks to us beyond his time in his brilliant and mind-opener book Religion and Science. This is the story of the struggle between science and religion; demons, dogmas and reason. Russell concludes the argument with how science is superior than religion, determines how the world was shaped by these dogmatic and reactionary ideas and awakened by the powerful arguments of Charles Darwin.

Contents of this beautiful book:Grounds of ConflictThe Copernican RevolutionDemonology and MedicineEvolutionBody and SoulMysticismMysticism and LogicCosmic PurposeDeterminismScience and EthicsScience and Education

After writing the popular science book A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking, 17 years later he continues thinking about the nature of the universe, string theory, time travel an so on. He reveals secrets of the Big Bang, other mysteries of cosmology. He also makes the science and quantum mechanics more understandable and fascinating.

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